Ⓐ A RARE SOUTH INDIAN SWORD (KHANDA), 17TH CENTURY

Ⓐ A RARE SOUTH INDIAN SWORD (KHANDA), 17TH CENTURY

with double-edged blade swelling to a 'Cobra's head' tip, steel hilt formed with a pair of engraved and chiselled langets extending over almost a third of the blade's length on each side, the portion at the forte widening, curved with blade-catching lugs and engraved with flowers on each face, dish-guard formed of a pair of strongly curved D-shaped panels, the outer face forming a pair of blade-catching lugs en suite and engraved with border ornament, up-turned cup-shaped pommel and solid grip each engraved (the reverse pierced with a hole, probably for display)

86.5 cm; 33 3/4 in blade

See Elgood 2004 pp. 82-83.

Property from the Anthony Dove Collection (1938-2021)

Part proceeds to benefit Westminster Abbey